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...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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